World meat industry news

Leading Thai agro-industrial and food conglomerate Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF) is looking at buying a food-processing firm in Russia, CPF Chief Executive Adirek Sripratak told The Nation.
There are two deals under negotiation, the paper said, adding that the negotiations follow CPF board approval for the company’s Dutch subsidiary to acquire an integrated poultry business in Russia from Agro-Invest Brinky for around $680 million.
CPF has a livestock-feed and swine-farming business in Russia and plans to invest up to $1 billon in pork production near Moscow, Kaluga and Kaliningrad.
Adirek told the Nation that the planned acquisition of the food-processing.
Read more...

“By 2030 New Zealand Inc will not need antibiotics for the maintenance of animal health and wellness,” said New Zealand Veterinary Association (NZVA) President Dr Steve Merchant.
Around 70 per cent of human infectious diseases, including meningitis, anthrax and salmonellosis (food poisoning) have come from animals.
“With sharply increasing levels of resistance to antibiotics worldwide, we want animals and, by extension, humans to enter the ‘post-antibiotic’ era as safely as possible.”
Dr Merchant said this is a significant undertaking, requiring considerable teamwork and commitment from the veterinary profession, working.
Read more...

The announcement of JBS purchasing Cargill is behind us. That should put JBS in the #2 spot for packers, which is above Tyson. This also means that, between Brazil and China, they have control of about 50 per cent of the packing capacity in the US, writes Alan Bentley, Sales & Service, Genesus.
The packing industry has gone through many changes, one of the most important being the invention of refrigerated cars.
The plants were then able to move to where the livestock was produced and away from the cities. Boxed meat was the next change, which made swinging meat a term of the past and local butchers go the same way as makers of wooden wagon wheels.
Packing has.
Read more...

McDonald’s Canada is one step closer to purchasing Canadian beef from verified sustainable sources thanks to a pilot project which has begun on-site verifications of beef operations across Canada.
McDonald’s – which already sources all of its beef for its Canadian operations from Canadian producers - announced a year ago that it is committed to begin purchasing a portion of its beef from verified sustainable sources in 2016, writes Angela Lovell for TheCattleSite.
Since then it has developed its pilot verification project in consultation with multiple stakeholders, including beef producers and the Canadian Roundtable for.
Read more...

South Africa had committed in Paris to accommodate USDA’s request for recognition of its current negligible risk status under bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and resume its imports of US beef.
This is according to a Foreign Agricultural Service report which said the issue has not been concluded.
The US has been unable to export US beef to South Africa under terms consistent with its OIE risk status since 2005, when the United States resumed exports of beef to many nations, the report said.
The US began exporting a limited scope of products to many nations in 2005 following the implementation of the ruminant feed ban.
As the OIE’s determination of.
Read more...

According to the General Statistics Office, Vietnam currently has about 27.2 million pigs on the farms (up 2.9 per cent from last year at this time), writes Ron Lane, Business Director for Asia Pacific and Meggie Vo, Genesus Marketing Representative in Vietnam.
The hog market production reached 2.05 million tonnes of pork in the first 6 months of 2015 which is an increase of 3.9 per cent as compared to the same period in 2014.
The Ministry of Agriculture forecasts an increase in output this year of 2.4 per cent to 3.37 million tonnes.
In the first six months of the pig breeding year, production developed quite smoothly as the incidence of PRRS (blue ear) did not.
Read more...

Domestic beef demand was up 8 per cent in May, but foreign demand was down 9 per cent, writes Ron Plain and Scott Brown, University of Missouri.
During the first five months of the year, beef imports were up 37.3 per cent and exports were down 9.5 per cent compared to January-May 2014.
The latest USDA WASDE report cut expected 2015 beef production by 0.8 per cent and increased 2016 production by 0.5 per cent. They now predict 1.8 per cent less beef this year than last and 4.3 per cent more beef in 2016 than this year. They expect fed cattle prices to average close to $160/cwt both this year and next.
Fed cattle futures were lower this week. The feeder cattle contracts.
Read more...

Over the past decade there has been increased awareness from the public on animal welfare issues related to sow farrowing and lactation, and this factsheet from Monique Pairis-Garcia at Ohio State University described some alternative options to the traditional farrowing stall.
In the United States, restricted sow movement in the traditional farrowing stall has been identified as a significant concern with growing pressure towards the elimination of this system.
Recognising changes in consumer demand and the desire to improve sow welfare by meeting her biological needs during farrowing, alternative farrowing options need to be assessed.
The purpose of this factsheet.
Read more...

There have been six new outbreaks of African Swine Fever in Russia, affecting village swine herds.
In total, there were 25 cases out of a susceptible population of 71 animals. There were 19 deaths, and all 52 susceptible animals in the pig operations were destroyed.
The outbreaks occurred in several different areas in the.
Read more...

International Trade Highlights: US Chicken Leg Quarter Export Update
Based on data, the US shipped a total of 131,876 metric tons (MT) of chicken leg quarters in May 2015, 2% lower than April 2015 (134,850 MT) and 1% lower than May 2014 (133,378 MT). A more drastic difference was seen in export values as the US shipped a total of $101,886,000 of chicken leg quarters in May 2015, 7% lower than April 2015 ($109,003,000) and 29% lower than May 2014 ($144,361,000).
The US exported a total of 14,787 MT of chicken leg quarters to Angola in May 2015 with 13,168 MT to Mexico, 9,882 MT to Cuba, 7,658 MT to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), 6,845 MT to Taiwan, 6,757 MT to Iraq,.
Read more...